"From modern-day challenges such as balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, buying a home, and figuring out credit card finance charges to appreciating historical developments by Pythagoras, Archimedes, Newton, and other mathematicians, this engaging resource addresses more than 1,000 questions related to mathematics. Organized into chapters that cluster similar topics in an easily accessible format, this reference provides clear and concise...

We are surrounded by geology, it is in everyone's backyard; it is at everyone's feet. More than just amazing landscapes, geology describes how our environment became what it is, providing a history of our planet and its universe. Ranging from the backyard to outer space, Handy Geology answers nearly 1,100 fundamental and essential questions about this most fascinating science.

Your fitness, health, and well-being depend on food and proper nutrition. Yet, knowing what is in the foods we eat, understanding the differences between good and bad fat, learning which foods are good sources of vitamins, keeping up on the latest scientific discoveries, or discerning the effectiveness of different diets can be challenging. To help answer these questions there's The Handy Nutrition Answer Book. Additionally, the book scrutinizes...

Answers questions about oceanography and the ocean covering such topics as waterspouts, whirlpools, ocean shelves, tides, and global warming.